26 of 28 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars a must read!, March 28, 2008 By Ms. Sherry Liu - See all my reviews
This is a must-read for anyone who encounter huge ships daily and do not want to get run over by them. I found this book extremely helpful. To this day, I have never been run over by a single huge ship!!
J. Courtney’s review:
Instead of falling into the same trap that other authors of this subject fall in to, such as "stay on land" or "move out of the way", John Trimmer offers thought provoking, deep insight into the complexities of Huge Ship avoidance.
If you or anyone you love plans on setting out to sea any time soon, and are worried about encountering a huge ship – then I cannot encourage you enough to read this book.
Here’s another review, this one by Gordon Hawk:
Trimmer’s book is deceptively simple, take his opening passage for example:
"when walking down a local thoroughfare, or perhaps on a day out to your local dock, and suddenly, seemingly from nowhere, a 40ft metallic compound hull emerges in your line of sight, it is most likely, if not definitely, going to be – a huge ship"
It’s theoretical groundwork like this which lacks from today’s ‘pick and choose’ postmodern discourse. Trimmer unleashes this devastating examination with relative ease; most interestingly with chapters such as "Avoiding the ship itself: Moving Left or Right?" which comes up with a flurried and meticulous deconstruction of ethics and theoretical obstacles, for instance "is there anything on either side of the huge ship? – if so, and there is, it is probably, if not definitely, going to be – difficult to move round to that side of the huge ship".
A must for those with an eye for Naval pragmatism and/or a small ship.
Teen sailor Jessica Watson says she has survived her toughest test to date with her yacht being slammed on its side four times by rogue waves and cyclonic winds in the Atlantic ocean.
Watson's online blog says after experiencing her first knockdown - which is when the mast goes below horizontal and into the sea - she then suffered three more during the eight-hour storm.
She was battered with wind gusts of up to 70 knots and a swell up to 10 metres.
During yesterday's storm, Watson sailed past the 11,000 nautical mile mark on her solo circumnavigation attempt.
Despite the horrific conditions and some minor damage, both Jessica and Ella's Pink Lady emerged mostly unscathed.
"We certainly copped a pounding out here, but we came through it all OK," she said.
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